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The Ariane 6 program provides Europe with independent access to space for strategic missions and the flexibility to launch both heavy and light payloads to a wide range of orbits.
Airbus and ArianeGroup signed a contract for the next transition batch of Ariane 6 large carbon fiber structures.
Airbus builds as many as four carbon fiber structures for each Ariane launcher at its Getafe site near Madrid.
ArianeGroup intends to use PHOEBUS to raise the maturity level of cryogenic composite technologies for the next Ariane 6 upper stage.
ArianeGroup will undertake assembly and testing of the PHOEBUS demonstrator using components manufactured by MT Aerospace.
ArianeGroup is seeking investment and support to increase the cadence of Ariane 6 beyond the up-to-12-per-year production rate currently built in.
Arianespace will launch its final three Ariane 5 missions next year, including ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter, and will then transition to the first launch of the Ariane 6.
After flight model integration, the M1 lander was packed and shipped from the ArianeGroup facility to the IABG GmbH Space Centre in Ottobrunn, Germany for final testing.
ESA developed and qualified Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and procured the launch service from Arianespace.
ESA will seek funding for a Block 2 upgrade of Ariane 6 to increase payload performance and for a separate program to transition Ariane 6 into high-rate production.
Amazon ordered more than 80 Ariane 6, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur launches for Project Kuiper in April.
The first flights of new vehicles Ariane 6, H3, New Glenn, and Vulcan Centaur have been delayed to 2023 or beyond.
European Space Agency expects to decide sometime in the first half of 2023 how to launch the next Galileo satellites, which are currently manifested on the second Ariane 6 flight.
Hera had been scheduled to launch by the end of 2024 on an Ariane 6 but that schedule became infeasible due to a delay in the first Ariane 6 launch announced on 2022-10-19.
ESA will seek support for a Block 2 upgrade for Ariane 6 that includes a larger P120+ solid rocket motor for the vehicle’s strap-on boosters and improvements to the Vinci upper-stage engine.
The goal is to complete both the Ariane 6 upper stage and launch complex tests in the first quarter of 2023.
The European Space Agency delayed the first flight of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle to the fourth quarter of 2023.
The first flight of Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch from Kourou, French Guiana.
An external review of the Ariane 6 program established in May yielded the fourth-quarter-2023 target launch date.
ESA will seek 600,000,000 EUR for a transition program to support increased production of Ariane 6 as it enters commercial service.